Re: Sending attachments

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Robert J. Chassell) writes:
> Marc Andreessen wrote Emacs Lisp to add gif, jpeg, postscript,
> raw-binary, and raw-nonbinary in 1992 in MIME and in 1993-95 Masanobu
> UMEDA wrote Emacs Lisp to edit MIME text messages.
> In 1996, Ray Moody wrote Emacs Lisp to read MIME.
>
> As far as I know, none were part of GNU Emacs.  I can send the libraries
> if wanted.

Emacs _already_ has mime libraries; they seem to work quite well.
Message mode (and Gnus) already uses them.  Message mode is more or less
a superset of mail-mode.

It seems fairly obvious that the best solutions are:

  1. In the long-term, merge mail-mode and message-mode.  It's silly
     that there are two modes.  AIUI, this is already an Emacs goal.

  2. In the short-term, just use message mode when you want to send
     mime mail.

No?

-Miles

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